Privacy Statement

This privacy statement applies to the website for:

New Embroidery Designs
PO Box 1092
Center TX 75935 USA
+1-936-427-7098
privacy@whizardries.com

We respect your privacy. This is why we have taken the time to disclose our information collection practices and our privacy policy. Please take the time to review this document.

How does it work?

When you download and install the toolbar, you are given a unique ID code which is placed into our database and your computer's registry. This ID code is used to provide you with only the options that you choose. The toolbar will send its ID code to our site once approximately every ten minutes to see if there are updated items to place in the toolbar for you to see. It does not follow your browsing habits or identify you personally to anyone, including us.

What do we collect?

Collecting information provides specific benefits to our website visitors. The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience with us and with the digitizers who advertise their designs through our site. With it, we can take care of customer service issues, and even tailor the site to your specific desires.

• Our web server, like every other web server on the Internet, logs your IP address and what pages you visit on our site. With that information we could build a path of your visit through the site. This information is aggregated (combined with the same information of all of the other visitors to the site) by our site statistics software and then destroyed every hour.
• Your toolbar contains a unique User ID which matches an entry in our database. We use this ID to tailor the information presented to you by the toolbar.

What about cookies?

Our website uses cookies. A "cookie" is a small text file that contains a string of alphanumeric characters. There are two types of cookies that may be used on a website: a persistent cookie and a session cookie. A persistent cookie gets entered by your Web browser into the "Cookies" folder on your computer and remains in that folder after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site to do things like keep you logged in to the site. A session cookie is held temporarily in your computer's memory and disappears after you close your browser or shut off your computer.

Our website only uses session cookies. While the cookie is automatically set for all visitors it is only used or referenced when digitizers log in and use our digitizer functions. Our adserver also uses cookies that manage how ads are shown on the site. For the user, this is a very good thing because advertisers want their ads seen by an individual a certain amount of times. But not too many times. If the cookie is deleted, there is no way of knowing how many times the ad has been seen, therefore, it will be shown everytime a person looks at the page. The net: with cookies, you see less ads; without, you see ads all the time. These cookies appear as "ads.whizardries.com" followed by "phpAds_" and then various letters and numbers. Finally, we are currently using Google Analytics to help us evaluate advertising methods. We have received reports that Google is also trying to set a cookie.

How will my information be used?

We collect information for the following purpose(s):

• Completing or supporting an activity
• Website and system administration
• Research and development
• Tailoring the website for its visitors
• Research, analysis, and reporting

Who has access to my information?

Who has access to the information we collect?

• We do
• Payment processing services possibly not sharing our privacy policy (only if you are a digitizer or advertiser who is advertising through the toolbar)
• Digitizers are given aggregate statistics about how many people have selected to view the content they place with us and how many times we have referred someone to their site

What can I change?

Of the information we do collect, we allow our visitors the following access to the information:

• Access is given to the options you select

What if I think you made a mistake?

If you believe that our website has collected incorrect information or if you would like to dispute any information, please contact us using the address at the top of this page.

How do I stop you from gathering more information about me?

If you do not like our collection practices, simply do not install the toolbar or uninstall it if you have previously installed it.